Laurence BonJour's coherentist objection holds that a belief can be epistemically justified through its coherence with a broader doxastic system, independent of source reliability.

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Coherentist(describing the type of pathway to moral knowledge): An approach to knowledge where ideas support each other like a web—instead of relying on one foundation, many beliefs work together and make sense as a connected whole.
Epistemically justified(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge)): Having good, solid reasons or evidence that make a belief or claim reasonable to accept from a knowledge standpoint.
Laurence BonJour(as a coherentist philosopher who recognized a weakness in the theory): A contemporary epistemologist (philosopher who studies knowledge) who developed coherentism further and later acknowledged a major problem with it.
Source reliability(contrasting what coherentism ignores): Whether the origin of a belief (like a person, a book, or your own perception) is trustworthy and tends to give you true information.
coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.): The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.
doxastic system(Used to define doxastic basicality): A believer's total belief system — the set of beliefs they hold and the structural relations among them.

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